or if you have any allergic reactions such as rash, hives, swelling of the lips, tongue or throat, or difficulty breathing or swallowing, stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. ask your doctor about cialis for daily use and a 30-tablet free trial. good morning. i'm chris jansing. we are live from tower city center here in cleveland. i've been covering the obama and romney campaigns here in ohio since friday following both since they barn stormed this state and the country in a last frantic final push. can you believe it's the final full day? well, president obama visiting three states that will make up his firewall today. wisconsin, here in ohio and iowa. mitt romney just wrapped up a florida. now, he's headed to virginia and then back here to ohio. he'll end his day in new hampshire.

polls show this race is extremely close. a dead heat nationally. very close in the battleground states. perhaps a very slight advantage for president obama. he seems to have a little bit of momentum going into the final day. well, democrats point to long lines for early voting as a sign of enthusiasm, but republicans say their crowds are bigger and the obama magic from 2008 has warn off. the president's closing argument, a fair shot for everyone and a chance to do even better. >> we've made real progress these past four years, but here's the thing, ohio. we know we've got more work to do. that's why we're here today. >> but mitt romney says four years under a president romney will deliver change. >> four years ago, let's look at the promises the president made. he promised to do so very much. but frankly, he fell so very short. you hope that president obama would live up to his promise to

bring people together to solve big problems, but he hasn't and i will. >> joining me now is dave weigel and mark, a columnist. welcome to both of you. so, finally, here we are, dave. seems like he spent billions of o dollar, ten months later and the race is still dead even. what are you looking for now? >> where the voters are in early voting ab where the voters tomorrow are turning out. i've been sending time in early voting sites. look at the composition -- >> what are you seeing? >> i was in -- county yesterday, about 15% african-american. yesterday in the polls, movement by black churches to get the vote turning to church to early voting sites. 50%. for the county, about 60% african-american and it looks like the democratic base in

these big urban and suburban counties is coming out. i think it's true that the rural vote is going to fall off for obama. the margin will be bigger, but if democrats turn out like 2008, he could turn out as much bush did and still win. >> 125 visits by the principles just in ohio. let me play a little clip to reenforce that. >> i need you, ohio! and if you're willing to work with me and knock on some doors with me, go in to early vote for me, make some phone calls for me, turn out for me, we'll win ohio! >> ohio is a center place, we're going to make sure this is the place we take and we're going to take back the white house. >> dave, ohio's going to swing this race, you know, the question is, what's going to happen here.

mark, what do you say? >> well, i think ohio is very close. there's a slight edge to the president based on all the princip polls. in both campaigns, democrats and republicans -- both are doing what they do best. the republicans know how to pull people out in the rural areas and places just say north of columbus. just north of cincinnati. those are firewall counties for republicans. and if they do well there, that could really give them a slight advantage. democrats on the other hand are working the urban areas and they're also going after small places like mansfield, ohio. lima. little places where there are democratic pockets surrounded by republican areas. that's something they learned from job kerry in iowa in 2004 when he got so focused on a handful of counties, he left a bunch of voters out there in the state. >> anything you're focused on, dave, that would suggest to you that the republicans are right when they say we've got the

enthusiasm behind us so we're going to sneak in a win on tuesday? >> these crowds are bigger than the ones john mccain and sarah palin had. look at the rally, the kickoff of romney's closer. the first people i talked to were volunteers from kentucky and tennessee, which is great, they're working and getting the vote out. signs don't vote. you see a lot of romney signs and they're impressive, you see a lot of effort that might be wasted. i spent some time with our activists from freedom works and america's prosperity. freedom works was focused on a senate candidate. america's prosperity, a lot of persuasion. you might see and you were referring to 2004, you might see a lot of visceral opposition for the president that's not translated. >> i want to bring in ohio secretary of state, john houston. good morning. >> great to be with you. >> we are seeing some long lines

to vote early. 2500 people lined up in cleveland. i think we had another 3700 people voting in franklin county in akron. their wait was two hours. you tried to limit early voting this past weekend. do you think the lines prove it was needed? >> actually, i didn't. the state law eliminated it. when i was given the option, i opened up the polls for saturday, sunday and monday. in ohio, we have 35 days to vote. this is the 34th day of voting we've had. it's very easy to vote in this state. michigan, pennsylvania, kentucky, they don't have early voting. we do and we're going to see record turnout, we believe, from the early vote in this election cycle l. >> well, let's talk about the provisional ballots. you're headed back to court over this issue. it says if the section of the ballot isn't filled out by the voter, that shows what kind of i.d. they have. those votes could be

invalidated. i'm going to read from revised code 3505, once a voter casting a boll lat propers identification, the appropriate local election official shall record the type of identification provided. so, what is your argument? as you know, there are a lot of critics saying this is an effort to suppress is vote and will prevent people's votes from being counted. >> what we're doing is trying to qualify more voters to cast their ballot. the sixth circuit court of appeal just said in a ruling when they struck down the opponent's argument, that the voter has to fill out section one and three. two was not part of that case. the voter should fill this out because say for example you're writing down the last four digits of a social security number. the voters more likely to get that right than the poll worker is and if it's not right, the ballot won't be counted, so we're trying to be consistent through this process. allow the voter to fill this out

rather than the poll worker. you're actually -- >> that says the poll worker should fill it out? >> you have to look at what the sixth circuit said and the other provisions in the code where it said that the voter must provide this information. bottom line is i'm trying to provide, resolve this issue. i just gave instructions to the attorneys in my office to see if we can sort out out. it's really a matter of who fills out the r form. all the federals have been settled over this and at the 11th hour we're discussing about what fills out a form, i really believe voters will be benefitted if they fill it out haves a poll worker. i'm not partial to who does it. >> finally, the atlantic had this headline the other day. say hello to the ohio official who might pick the next president. obviously, they're talking about the influence you have on voting

in ohio and so, it begs the question, do you think there will be a recount? do you think this could be tallahassee in 2000? >> the voters are going to be the people that decide the outcome in this race. we are prepared for a close race. the rules are set. the lawsuits are being settled. voting early has gone very smoothly in ohio. no reason to think tomorrow won't also go smoothly and we're prepared for a close election and everybody across the state in all 88 counties are doing a great job administering this election. we've had no glitches so far. we don't expect any tomorrow. >> secretary of state just husted, thanks very much. this is something you know a lot about. maybe we're parsing words here, it's one thing to say provide identification. it's another thing, the section i read that talks about who has

to fill it in, bottom line, what do you think of this? >> go back to earlier point. there is an enthuse yiasm gap w president obama compared to four years ago, but that has been made up over this issue of votivote ing and the changes that the secretary of state has looked at in closing that 72-hour window of voting. there are close to 4 or 500,000 votes that get counted after the election. overseas ballots, provisional. that's a big deal in places like cleveland where people move a lot. i think lawsuits will follow both those challenges how the forms were filled out, so one hand, if the secretary of state is trying to avoid that, but if there's an implication somebody was denied because they didn't fill out a period right or address, there's going to be a big problem. >> all right, dave, what are the chances we're still going to be here a week or ten days from now and they're going to be counting

votes? >> if the polls are accurate, to get to a recount, you need less than a quarter of 1%. the odds of that happening are fairly low. there's a narrow lead for one candidate right outside that margin. democrats have used that pretty effectively in florida, pennsylvania. there's an ols expression or cliche, if you shoot an elephant, you have to kill it. this might be what happened with a lot of their base excited about the president. if they get bigger margins from philadelphia, cleveland, less likely, but miami-dade, that also reduces the likelihood this is close. make longer lines, but -- >> great conversation. thanks, guys, for coming in today. new jersey governor chris christie says he is been driven crazy by people who have been criticizing him for praising

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if the race for president can be boiled down to a key county, it would be ohio's most populated county, cuyahoga. more than 11% of the state's

population lived in this cleveland area county. 30% of the residents are african-american. now, in 2008, president obama won the entire state by a smaller number of votes than he won the county by. a point not lost on the candidates. >> we're going to win cuyahoga county! we're going to win ohio! >> boy, i tell you, cleveland really does rock, you know that? >> i'm joined now by stewart garcia, democratic party chairman and bob frost, republican party chairman. stewart, what's the state of the race here in cuyahoga county? >> we're doing great in cuyahoga county. our numbers are exceeding 2008 numbers in terms of absentee ballot returns. early voting's holding up notwithstanding that we've had seven days of early voting taken away, but we're real pleased where we are. >> i have so say, i was at the romney event yesterday in

cleveland, rob, and there was a lot of enthusiasm there. having said that, this is about the margins. you're not going to win cuyahoga county. the point is, to keep the margin a victory by barack obama low enough that there's a chance for you to take this state. how do you feel about it? >> we feel good. we have realistic goals. >> 69% for barack obama in 2008. >> we're exceeding our goals. i find it interesting to hear chairman -- early ballot returns are at 88% of 2008. republican ballot returns are at 135%. so we've closed that margin very big from 2008. we're also though as you can see from yesterday, we've got the enthusias enthusiasm. we had a rally yesterday twice as big as any rally president obama has had in the cleveland area at any point in this

campaign. we're going to have a huge turnout tomorrow. we're going to turn out in cuyahoga county, the largest number of votes for governor romney than any other county in the the state of ohio. >> is he right about those numbers? >> i don't know what he's talkinging about, but that's been part of the narrative of this campaign. we like to be grounded in reality. and we have at this point, our board of elections, we have over 290,000 absentee ballots returns and looking at where we were in 2008, we're up on those numbers and early voting is in person is pretty much about 5, 6,000. we're down a little bit in the early voting because as i said, we had four days of remnants of the hurricane last week. which certainly had an impact. >> almost out of time, but i want to get a quick comment about there have been concerns for things like voter suppression, this lawsuit now

that is in court today. 600 lawyers just in cuyahoga county election lawyers. could this go beyond wednesday morning? >> i know from reading stu garson's, media, pretty cynical tactic. we heard president obama say it when he said vote for revenge. for what? the bush years. that's what this whole campaign is based upon in ohio. keep it close, then try to win. that's not way to run a democracy. >> we're worried about it to the extent that we'd like every vote that counts, but they've got a secretary of state that never misses an opportunity to contract the vote, not to expand the vote and even today, directives are coming out. this is a secretary of state who basically suggests that his critics are interjecting chaos into this election and just

proof positive of the fact that that's not true is here we have a day before the most important election in this country and we have directives coming forward basically confusing our poll workers, so yes, regrettably, we you know, need attorneys. that's, these are elections by attorney now, but it's easy to vote in cuyahoga county and -- >> and you would both say get out and vote. >> and to all of our residents, get out and vote. >> thanks to both of you for coming in. see there, they shook hands. nice show of bipartisanship. former president bill clinton ie

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let's start with sherrod brown. how tight's this race? >> i think the presidential race is close, but i think the president clearly ahead by a little bit. i think the romney effort on that jeep ad which was clearly in many ways immorally false because it scared a whole bunch of jeep workers in toledo, some of which i talked to in toledo and i think that says the a mar of desperation. we've seen unemployment drop 3.5 points since the auto rescue really took hold. it's not good enough, but it's going in the right direction. i think that worries the romney camp, but frankly, t a celebration for ohio. >> let me ask you to be a strategist for a minute and not a partisan. are we going to have a new president on tuesday night? will it be wednesday morning? sometime after that when some challenges are made in places like ohio? >> i think we'll have, we're not going to have a new president. we'll have the same president again. i think on election night, i

think the president once ohio, there may be some hanky pankey at the polls close, but i think the president wins ohio comfortingly enough, because of medicare, the auto rescue. the president wins comfortly enough that you won't be up all night counting votes. >> david axelrod told me two or three points. >> pretty smart. still got his mustache. >> i also caught up with josh mendel. >> it's very close. i think a lot of it is going to come down to independent voters. a lot of it's anecdotal, just talking to friends i know. they tell me it's a strong organization, there's not the energy there was four years ago.

>> over the weekend, we're seeing huge, long lines of early voters. republicans are counting on a big showing on election day. how are you going to accomplish that? >> when i ran for the legislature, i served in a district that was two to one. i knocked on -- doors. >> approximately. >> i've never let go of that strategy. i think the best way to earn people's vote is to get on their doorstep. i'm doing that. >> spent more money on television advertising and all this talk about the social media. you're saying it comes down to knocking on doors. >> one of the beautiful things about our democratic posz here in america is that you have folks run ining for president w are going to county fairs and festivals and shaking hands and eating corn dogs. grass roots, knocking on doors, that, for me, is where rubber meets the road. >> do you buy that ohio's going

to decide this election? >> i do. >> and what will be the final distance? >> i think it's going to be very close. tight, tight, tight. if i had to crystal ball it, mitt romney's going to be the next president and i'll be the next senator. >> josh mandel. another senate race in missouri. claire mccaskill and todd aiken. paul is being featured in a new robo call reaching out to republicans. now, rand paul, newt gingrich, jim inhoff are among the republicans trying to help him to win. if you read only one thing this morning, over the past several days of reading, it has become kind of the poll hanging over this election for those of us who spent 36 days in florida covering the end of the 2000 presidential race. will we be spending 36 days in cleveland this year?

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wow, angry and frustrated voters in miami-dade, florida, chanting let us vote after officials closed the doors to absentee voting yesterday afternoon. on friday, florida democrats sued to extend early voting after some voters were stuck in lines for hours trying to meet saturday's deadline. debbie wasserman schultz is with us, christie todd whitman and anita turner here to discuss florida, ohio as well as hurricane sandy's impact on tomorrow's election. good morning to you and debbie

wasserm wasserman shult, how are you? >> i'm okay. >> what happened in your state? it really looked like a nightmare in some places. >> it has been. what happened is very clear. you have republicans led by rick scott and the republican legislature who first shrunk the number of days available from 14 to eight. you have a systematic effort to stop people from voting. shrink the number of people who have been able to go to the polls. we had yesterday in miami-dade county, absolutely unconscionable effort to really basically remove people from line, stop them from being able to cast an in person or absentee ballot and you know, what the issue here is that we should be making sure people have more access to being able to cast the ballot. not less, but the republicans in florida and across the country know that you know, when it comes to the issue, when it comes to winning elections on

the merits, they are unable to make the case and so, what they've been trying to do is throw obstacles in the path of voters. particularly those more likely to go to the polls and vote for president obama and democrats. and the proof is in the pudding and states across the country, in early votes, absentee ballots cast, we've cut the typical advantage republicans have in so many states in absentee balloting and early voting, we've just been running circles. people have been pushing back hard, chris. i know in florida, i was campaigning all week. there are voters saying you are not going, i'm not going to allow you to stop me from casting my fundamental right to vote and that's why those voters were chanting in line an the miami-dade supervisor of elections was right to reopen those offices. the last voters cast their ballots after 11:00 last night. >> well, actually, i heard there was a place where they cut off the line at 7:00 a.m. in miami. 7:00 p.m. in miami-dade and the last voter voted at 1:00 a.m.,

which meeps a six-hour wait. do you think it's going to have an impact on the final outcome? >> on saturday night, the last voter who had gotten in line at 7:00 cast their vote at 2:30 in the morning. so yes, i am concerned that this is having, that this is will effect a ability of people to vote, but florida voters have been determined and resolute. they've been turning out in record numbers in early voting because they are insisting that the government will not stop them. not restrict their right to vote, but the republicans who lead our state kopt to try to throw obstacles in their path. voters are determined to stay in line. those voters yesterday in the line at miami-dade county, they could have left, but stay stayed in line and pushed hard until the doors were reopened. people want to continue to move this economy forward. they know we should rebuild the economy from the middle class

out as president obama's been doing and they're not going to be deterred. >> perhaps the president wins the electoral vote. mitt romney wins the popular vote. new jersey and new york were hit hardest by hurricane sandy. are you concerned turnout could affect the popular vote? which may give one or the other some bragging rights or very real right, in terms of a mandate, whoever's elected? >> i know governor cuomo and christie are doing everything they can coordinating with president obama and fema, as well as the national guard to mobilize military units to be able to set up polling sites. they're doing the opposite of what's going on in florida and some other republican-controlled states that are trying to do everything they can to maximize turnout it is not about party. in america, we are the greatest democracy in the world and every elected official should be doing everything they can to maximize turnout.

we've got to continue to move forward. voters know that. there's a reason that democrats have turned out in strong, strong numbers to cast a ballot for president obama in the early voting process and mitt romney has a will the of ground to make up on election day tomorrow and state after state, the key battleground states, he's got a lot of gaps to close. he's got to win the people who turn up to vote tomorrow by about eight points in order to win my state and the same is true in ohio, colorado, in battleground states across the country. i just wish that republican elected officials across this country would work hard to make sure that more people have a chance to cast their ballot as opposed to the effort they've made for the last two years to shrink people's access to the polls. it's unacceptable and un-american. >> good to have you on the program. thank you so much. now let me bring in former republican governor from new jersey. it's always good to see you and

let me ask you first about your state because i saw this morning, i think there's still almost a million homes without power. so many schools are closed and another storm is coming. i mean, that's hard to believe. how are you all doing in new jers jersey and do you think it's going to have an impact on turnout? >> well, we're one of these people that don't have power. although being on a farm, we have a generator, so we're so much better off than the shore, but there are a lot of people that are still hurts. chris christie's a republican. he's doing everything he can to make sure people have the tount to vote. our polling place has been changed, but the signs are up. he's bringing in everything he can to ensure that people have access to the ballot. i don't know what went on in florida, but in this day and age, it's inexcusable that in this country, we have anything like this going on. i've led delegations arndt the world to watch voting and this is the kind of thipg you expect in a third world country.

i don't believe it's a big republican plot because if it is, it backfired mightily and others might want to take a good look at it. i'm not quite as certain about how people voted. i don't know how you know how the early voters voted. the democrats may have turned out more, but it doesn't necessarily mean they voted straight party lines, so it's still going to be a tight election and new jersey, you're going to have i think probably a lower voter turnout. that will go to your earlier question. not that it will change how the state ultimately is going to go i don't believe because we're a very blue state, but what it can do is depress the numbers and that will make the overall margin of victory for whomever wins a lot closer. if you take the northeastern states being sort of universally blue at this point in time. it's going to be more the senate races and some of the local races that are going to be affected. >> some republicans believe that the hurricane slowed down mitt romney's momentum. let me play for you something from mississippi, former

mississippi governor, haley bar burr yesterday. >> you need that the news media is not talking about jobs in the economy, taxes and spending, deficits and debt, obama care and energy is is a good day for barack obama. >> karl rove said something similar. are they right or making executions prematurely? did mitt romney lose momentum here? >> i don't think so there's any doubt about it. the storm gave the president the opportunity to be a leader and he's done a good job and that's why chris christie said. chris followed up by saying that's not going to change his vote and he's not the right person to go forward, but you got to recognize when someone does the right thing. not everything is partisan and we need to get over that attitude, but clearly, it slowed the momentum because it took mitt romney off the front page or at least the split front page that we have between what the president's doing on the campaign trial and what romney's

doing on the campaign trial. it's all front page about the storm as it should be. >> to you and to everybody else in jersey and throughout that region, we wish you the best and thanks so much for taking the time to come talk with us. >> my pleasure. >> and joining me here in cleveland is the ohio state senator, nini turner. so, lots of talk about voter controversies, suppression. >> when i was given the option i opened up the polls for saturday, sunday and monday. in ohio, we have 35 days to vote. voting, this is the 34th day of voting we've had. it's very easy to vote in this state. michigan, pennsylvania, kentucky, they doept have early voting. we do. and we're going to see record turnout we believe from the early vote in this election cycle. >> he says he's done everything he can to help people to vote. you've called him the secretary of suppression.

>> and the arrogance. he said he opened up. let us not forget he is the secretary of state in this state who appealed all the way to the supreme court to try to take away the last three days of early voting. it's laughable now when he tried to suppress every voter in this state. no matter how he tries to dress it up, the gop-led legislature in this state trieded to take away voting opportunities and he wants to talk about all the voting opportunities we had. 207 of those hours were doing work hours. 8:00 to 5:00. if you are poor, transit dependent, how in the heck are you going to get to the polling place between 8:00 a.m. and 5 clm? but for the democrats fight ng this state and the president, we would not have had those to the polls yesterday, which i am proud that i was standing out there with the thousands of people. >> and can i say by the way, in

about 34, 35 degree weather. we've been checking out your twitter feed. tell me about r more about that and can it make a difference because we've been talking about how important the margin of victory for barack obama is in cuyahoga county. it was the difference for him winning in 2008. >> absolutely. it's very important and there were people standing in line who di not have electricity. we have people out from the residual impact. thousands of people. and we were beating our 2008 daily totals up until the point that sandy hit. so, it's going to be even that much more important that we drive out the vote in cuyahoga county, but i believe that we are going to deliver for the president. families were in those lines. babies. i had people say to me, thank you, senator, the reason why i am voting early is because of your fight and the fight of others to bring sundays back. this state, husted and governor of florida, we were the only two

states that took away the sun y sundayisunday voting. they know african-americans use that in a communal and culture way. i don't care how he tries to dress it up, he is going down in history in ohio as the secretary of state who appealed all the way to the united states supreme court to take away the last three days of early voting opportunities in the state of ohio and he's going to have to live with the environment, confusion, fear and mistrust that he has created in ohio. >> watching what happened here in ohio and in florida, take away all the controversy, seeing so many people willing to wait in line for hours to vote, i found very heartening in a democracy. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back. and major medical? major medical, boyyy, yeah! [ beatboxing ] berr, der berrp... ♪ i help pay the doctor ♪ ain't that enough for you? ♪ there's things major medical doesn't do. aflac! pays cash so we don't have to fret. [ together ] ♪ something families should get ♪ ♪ like a safety net

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ad. >> i've never seen an ad like this that was playing on the fears of people and it's just flat false. >> the fact is that we now make jeeps here in toledo, ohio, that we're proud to send to china, to asia, and so if they're going to start production facilities oversea, obviously, we're going to lose some exports here, so that's all the ad says. >> i'm joined now by lee saunderses, president of the american federation of state council of employees. good the to see you. you've been running around this state, that ad's been playing all over. is it going to work? they seem to think because they haven't backed off from it that it's been effective. >> we're going to win this election, make no mistake about it. i came to cleveland last night. i've been in wisconsin over the past five days, wisconsin, connecticut and massachusetts. our people are pumped up across this country. they know the importance and understand the importance of this election, so we're working those phone banks. knocking on doors, passing out

leaflets. urging people to vote early and if you look at the signs in ohio and here, a lot of folks are voting early in cuyahoga county, hamilton county, that's a good sign for democrats. >> how many people do you have out? do you have any numbers? >> i can tell you how many contacts we have made. in ohio, 2 million. >> that means knocking on door, making calls. >> things of that nature. across this country, we would have made over 16 million contacts, so we're not only talking with union member, but our communities, our friends and neighbors about the importance of this election. >> you know, after the recall election in wisconsin, there was a lot of talk about the death of unions and the importance of unions. we know membership has gone down over the last decade or so. what do you think is the impact of unions in this election? >> i think it's going to be huge. in wisconsin for example, where scott walker was successful in

taking collective bargaining away from us, our people are very angry about that. they're going to the polls and expressing their anger. right here in ohio where john ca casey tried to do this same, we were able to beat him by a 2-1 margin. the voters in ohio said no. public service employees have a right to collective bargaining. they remember when mitt romney came to ohio and stood right next to john casic and said i support john casic 110% on these efforts. we're getting to the polls like never before. >> the democrats say that initiative to take away collective bargaining here in ohio, they think it's going to help them southern, southwestern ohio, which has been traditio l traditionally republicans. republicans say it's all about coal and frankly, the president doesn't have a chance. >> well, the republicans are dead wrong and we're going to take ohio. this is not a republican and democratic. if you try to steal our voices away from us when you try to take away our rights. our members are going to vote

both republican and democrat. >> great to have you here. you've got more wak you can around the state to do. today's tweet of the day comes as we see the long lines for early voting. i'm actually going to vote on election day. it feels so retro.

welcome back live to cleveland. these last few days have been a homecoming for me. i am an ohio native. raised just outside of cleveland, minutes from where president obama was on saturday and where both sides have been fighting for votes. so here's a personal look at one county at the center of a a political storm where i grew up. welcome to my hometown. it was a great place to grow up as a kid. very much a working class community. it has gone through a number of ups and downs since then. like a lot of towns in the industrial midwest, factories

were the life blood. hundred of thousands of people workeded here, including my dad, who was here for 37 years. $12,000 a year and a -- the community of immigrants, my grandfather in fact worked -- now abandoned. this is the downtown, which obviously is still not in great shape. much better than most of the country with an unemployment rate of 5.7%. so here's the house i grew up in. two of my brothers still live here. my grandmother lived next door. these neighborhoods are full of the kind of voters mitt romney and barack obama are courting many these closing hours of the campaign. many of them older, which means they're likely to vote white, working class and may well decide how this election goes in ohio and the rest of the country. and with that, it will wrap up this hour. from cleveland, big thanks to the folks here at tower city

center for allowing us to broadcast. i'm chris jansing. thomas roberts is up next. hi, thomas. >> chris, that was pretty amazing there. i loved that look at your hometown. great hour. hi, everybody. the agenda next hour, rounding third and heading into home plate. if you believe the polls, barack obama and mitt romney are neck and neck and could be a photo finish on election day. ed schultz is going to join me, plus, who can get their supporters to the polls? bob shrum, karen finney -- join me in democracy plaza and marriage equality on the ballot. how are pulpit politics affecting this election? martin o'malley will join me. he thinks maryland is going to be the first state to vote to support marriage equality. follow the wings.

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